Karen Molnar News

Equity theatre company, TheatreZone, concludes its 18th “romantics & rockers” season line-up with Rock of Ages, the five-time Tony award nominated Broadway musical, announced Mark Danni, TheatreZone's founding artistic director.

TheatreZone continues to explore romance with the award-winning Neil Simon musical comedy The Goodbye Girl in Naples March 9-19, as part of the professional theatre company's “Romantics & Rockers” 2023 lineup.

The curtain is up on TheatreZone's second annual Culinary Raffle for fine dining aficionados, according to TheatreZone's Founding Artistic Director Mark Danni.

Set your clocks to island time for Jimmy Buffett's Escape to Margaritaville, staged by Naples' TheatreZone February 9 through February 19, 2023. The upbeat and energetic 2018 Broadway musical features more than two dozen of the most loved hits from Jimmy Buffett.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Ft. Myers/Naples Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Ft. Myers/Naples Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Ft. Myers/Naples Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

“The Voice” star Lana Love joins the cast of TheatreZone's Home for Holidays, December 9-11, 2022. The show kicks off TheatreZone's 18th season, themed “Romantics and Rockers” for its range of musicals from legends such as Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch, Neil Simon, Jimmy Buffett, and iconic eighties rock bands.

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Ft. Myers/Naples Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Ft. Myers/Naples Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

TheatreZone, a Naples-based professional Equity theatre specializing in Broadway musicals, celebrates a full, post-pandemic reopening— as well as its “Super 17” season —on December 10 with its original, annual production, Home for the Holidays.

TheatreZone, a Naples-based professional Equity theatre celebrating its 15th season of Broadway musicals, will present Gypsy, March 5-15 2020. Performances are scheduled for 7:30p.m. on March 5-8 and 11-15; 2:00 p.m. matinee performances will be presented on March 7-8 and 14-15.

Mark Danni, founding artistic director of TheatreZone, recently was honored with the 2018 Baldwin-Wallace University Conservatory of Music Alumni Achievement Award.

TheatreZone will begin offering behind-the-scenes tours prior to the first Saturday matinee of each show next season. The 90-minute small group tours led by Artistic Director Mark Danni and Managing Director Karen Molnar Danni will include views of the dressing rooms, costume storage areas and behind the stage, as well as a brief presentation about the history of TheatreZone and the opportunity to watch actors preparing on stage with mic checks and vocal warmups for the afternoon's performance. A ticket to that day's show is not required. The ability to climb stairs is required, as elevator access is not available for all areas.

TheatreZone closed their sold-out run of "George M!" with a surprise audience guest who's no stranger to George M. Cohan's trademark songs and signature performance style. George M. Cohan III, George M. Cohan's great-great nephew and Florida resident, came to enjoy "Over There," "Give My Regards to Broadway," and, of course, "You're a Grand Old Flag,' complimenting the theatre on their moving tribute to the theatre icon. BroadwayWorld has photos of Cohan's appearance below!

Find out the answer when non-profit Equity group TheatreZone and Florida Gulf Coast University Bower School of Music and The Arts debut George Gershwin's legendary political satire Of Thee I Sing in the intimate 190-seat U.Tobe Recital Hall on the campus of FGCU in Fort Myers in October.

TheatreZone co-founder Karen Molnar Danni today revealed the cast for Dames at Sea, the tap dancing comedic musical gem that gave Bernadette Peters her big break more than 40 years ago.

TheatreZone Artistic Director Mark Danni today announced the 13-member cast of the Equity theatre group's March 2016 production of INTO THE WOODS at the G&L Theatre in Naples. The production performs March 3 until March 13 and includes TheatreZone fan favorite actors and several newcomers.

The Boy from Oz is 'a musical true story' of the late entertainer Peter Allen who was a protege of Judy Garland, and briefly married to her daughter Liza Minnelli.

TheatreZone founder Mark Danni and Steffanie Pearce, founder of Gulfshore Opera, today announced the 25 cast members of Brigadoon, the Tony-award winning musical about two American tourists who stumble upon a misty little Scottish village that reawakens for one day every one hundred years.